What is currently on your Night Stand/ What are you reading?

[clong]

Spring break week at the beach saw me finish my re-read of Gene Wolfe's four volume Book of the New Sun, and then read The Zanzibar Cat (a short story collection from Joanna Russ), two of A Bertram Chandler's lightweight John Grimes novels, and C.J. Cherryh's much more substantial Serpent's Reach. Now it's on to Hard Times, which I likely will not finish by Tuesday, but I hopefully won't be too much later than that.

[Fickle]

I've finished Ratking and am now reading Cities In Flight.
I've received so much Spam since joining, I'm glad I used a new email.

[plantatarium]

I am currently reading Mr. Penumbras 24 hour bookstore by Robin Sloan. I am a few chapters in and I think it might be really good. I like that the author seems to actually know something about IT (the protagonist is a programmer and what would be described as a 'digital native'), so I don't have to whince everytime a computer is mentioned or used

I am also reading "Acting Up" by Melissa Nathan. This might be the deepest I ever ventured into the ChickLit genre, because the author simply adapted Pride and Prejudice into contemporary times by making her characters act in a 'Pride and Prejudice' play. It is exceptionally bad and I am reading it, hoping there will be a twist. Like the heroine murdering the Mr. Darcy character. I don't think this is going to happen though and it will be shelved on the "I can't believe I actually read that' board, together with 50 Shades.

[clong]

I am reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which had been sitting in my to be read stack for a long time. So far it is pretty good.

[plantatarium]

This has been on my pile as well. I never got over the first few pages though - I always thought I would give it another try when I'd be more able to dive into it. But I felt like I actually had to go there, that the book wasn't capturing me, making me unable to not read it (if this makes sense).

[clong]

I am currently reading C.J. Cherryh's Forty Thousand in Gehenna. A promising premise, but so far I haven't had enough time to develop much empathy for any of the characters.

[clong]

I am currently reading Thomas Pynchon's massive Mason & Dixon. Quite a change of pace from other books I've read from this author.

[Omphalos]

I am currently reading Thomas Pynchon's massive Mason & Dixon. Quite a change of pace from other books I've read from this author.

That is a tough one.

I am rereading the Tommyknockers. It is better than I remember.